Lombards
Also known as Langobardi, Longobardi
thumb|upright=1.2|Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom (Neustria (Lombard)|Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento
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The Lombards were a Germanic people who established a kingdom in Italy during the early Middle Ages, controlling territories that included the northern region and several duchies in the south. Their political presence in Italy was significant enough to shape the peninsula's territorial organization during the medieval period.
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35 sectionsContents
- Name
- Legendary origins
- History
- First century: Lower Elbe
- Second century
- Migration
- Middle Danube
- Kingdom of the Lombards in Italy, 568–774
- Langobardia major
- Langobardia minor
- Arian monarchy
- Catholic monarchy
- Later history
- Falling to the Franks and the Duchy of Benevento, 774–849
- Southern Italy and the Arabs, 836–915
- Lombard principalities in the tenth century
- Norman conquest, 1017–1078
- Genetics
- Culture
- Language
- Social structure
- Migration Period society
- Society of the Catholic kingdom
- Lombard states
- Religious history
- Christianisation
- Beneventan Christianity
- Art
- Architecture
- List of rulers
- Notes and sources
- Notes
- Sources
- Ancient sources
- External links
thumb|upright=1.2|Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom (Neustria (Lombard)|Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento
The Lombards, Longobards or Langobards () were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774 AD. They had previously settled in the Middle Danube in the 5th century, near what is now Austria, Slovenia and Hungary. Still earlier they lived further north, near present day Hamburg. Roman-era historians in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD mention the Lombards as one of the Suebian peoples, and report them living on the Lower Elbe already in the early 1st century. Their legacy is apparent in Lombardy, northern Italy, the region deriving its name from them.